Differences Between Europeans And Native Americans

When the Europeans landed in the Americas, they were surprised to find that other people had already populated the land. These people came to be known as Indians to the Europeans, and Native Americans to us today. They were called Indians due to the fact that the Europeans at first thought that they were in India, as they stumbled across the Americas whilst looking for a quicker shipping route to India, not knowing the fast land masses that separated Europe and India. Eventually though they discovered that they were not in India and they were in a previously undiscovered land. They began to settle there. The Europeans did not come alone, however. With them they brought many strange diseases that were foreign to the Americas and the native